When Ezril is taken from his home by a man in a cassock, he knows it is to a life in servitude to the god Truth. A life in the priesthood, though for those considered Hallowed, is truly no life at all. But Ezril has been offered by his family in good faith, in the hope that he will learn what they have to teach him.

Given a new name and a new purpose, Ezril is determined to survive the tests of the seminary as the priests forge him and his new brothers into blades destined to serve as sacrifices to the cause of Truth. In the end, choices will be made, legends born, and loyalties tested. But above all else, Ezril Vi Sorda will have to face the truth that perhaps he is not as Hallowed as he has been led to believe...

This is a slow burn, Grimdark, coming of age fantasy.